Yahoo Hack Day News Roundup

Some random bits of news from Yahoo Hack Day 2006: Chad Dickerson, head of the Yahoo Developer Network, just announced the release of the new Yahoo Photos API with browser-based authentication. This will allow developers to create webapps which can read and write Yahoo Photos data. There's also a new API for Yahoo Mail that […]

Some random bits of news from Yahoo Hack Day 2006:

  • Chad Dickerson, head of the Yahoo Developer Network, just announced the release of the new Yahoo Photos API with browser-based authentication. This will allow developers to create webapps which can read and write Yahoo Photos data.

  • There's also a new API for Yahoo Mail that lets you build services for Yahoo Mail users.

  • Flickr has rolled out support for JSON and serialized PHP responses.

  • Check out the Hack Day Flickr slideshow at the Hack Day blog. There's a Flash slideshow app pulling photos from Flickr tagged with HackDay06. Anyone here at Yahoo Hack Day who's curious about learning how to build such a slideshow, there's a Flick API tutorial later this afternoon. Lots of photos of Beck's equipment showing up right now...

Up next is Matt Sweeney talking about the promise of Web 2.0. Stay tuned.